TOTAL RECALL
1999

Eurovideoart Spezial in Moscow
Olga Bozhko
Russky Zhurnal (Russian Magazine, Internet issue english.russ.ru) June 23, 1999

"TV Gallery" is the key Moscow venue for video art. This winter the French showed their experiments on memory installation (exhibition "Total Recall").

Total Recall
Konstantin Bokhorov
Khudozhestvenny Zhurnal (Art Magazine), #25, 1999

In January – March there was shown the project "Total Recall" at TV Gallery curated by Irina Kulik. The theme of the project was memory by means of which the identity of the subject is formed. It was not by chance that "TV Gallery" was chosen as a venue, so far it is the only center of telematics in Russia, and with the application of electronic media art modelling of psychic processes became a special trend in contemporary art.

There were exhibited about twenty works at "TV Gallery", though their number could be endlessly increased if needed. The very theme proved to be trouble-free and any artist could play it up as he wished.

A reference to Phillip K. Dick and his story "Total Recall" was a sort of intellectual appeal of the project. The ideas of this American writer whose art was at its peak in the 60's, used to be pretty popular not long ago, mainly because of the screen version of his novel "Blade Runner".

The evolution of an artistic representation is aimed at making the process of art perception more and more entertaining and suggestive. Exhibitions of this kind are becoming a significant product of museums and centers of contemporary art.

It can so happen by November that we won't be able to remember anything
Boris Kuzminskiy
Commersant-Daily, #37, March 4, 1998

Moscow Art Media Center "TVGallery" got to work on a multimedia project "Total Recall", dedicated to Phillip K. Dick... The project which is to be carried out in the autumn of 1998, includes a large-scale Russian- French exposition, free catalogue with the interviews of famous philosophers and articles by contemporary art critics, sociologists, psycologists, writers, a scientific conference on Dick’s work, making of a thematic site and TV conference in Internet, musical programs with the representatives of alternative and classical music.

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